Editor's Review

GIMP is a powerful distributed program for photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. Comparisons to Photoshop abound simply because GIMP is its most laudable free alternative. Yet, putting aside any impersonations, GIMP truly stands on its own. Like any powerful program, GIMP takes time to master but once you familiarize yourself with its tools, simple tasks take mere minutes. GIMP is a smart solution to more expensive programs that may yield less favorable results.

GIMP at a Glance

It was easy to download and launch GIMP, which isn’t surprising because of its maturity. GIMP opens to a three-part UI. The left dialog contains GIMP’s tools, while the right dialog contains its Layers, Channels, Paths, and Brushes. The center holds GIMP’s main image editing area, which you can make full screen with docking dialogs. And you can add tabs to any dialog box to help you keep the all the features you need close at hand!

Product Details

GIMP is a versatile graphics tool and with some sophisticated built-in features such as:

Customizable Interface—GIMP allows you to customize its views and behaviors. For example, you can change widget theme colors, spacing, and icon sizes, plus custom toolbox sets.

Photo Enhancement—Digital photo imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. Corrective mode in the transform tools helps you fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt and a channel mixer affords you the flexibility you need with B&W photography.

Digital Retouching—GIMP is ideal for advanced photo retouching. For example, you can remove unwanted details with the clone tool or use the new healing tool to make quick fixes of minor issues like a botched brush stroke.

Hardware Support—GIMP includes support for various input devices, such as USB controllers, MIDI controllers, and pressure and tilt sensitive tablets. You can change brush properties while you paint and you can bind your favorite scripts to buttons to speed your workflow!

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Description

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Use GIMP as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible; it can be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

User Reviews

Nothing like the version I used on LINUX UBUNTU operating system earlier (18 months ago).
In no way even resembles the screen shots from web page. No toolbars displayed and airbrush tool permanently enabled. Also Layers function does not work as the tutorials suggest. Awfully glad I did not donate until I tried it out. Absolute rubbish or something seriously amiss with system compatibility. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND!

Posted 01/23/2015

mlybanon

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Not only does this project make installing GIMP on OS X easy, but I want to defend GIMP against the critics. My credentials: 40 years of experience in computer programming, 30 of them in image processing research (starting on an IBM 7094). GIMP does not work like Photoshop (an excellent program). But it works, and works very well. Do you have to learn new ways of doing things to use GIMP effectively? Tough. I don't feel sorry for you. GIMP will do MORE than most users of image processing software need. And the price is right.

Posted 09/14/2014

syscrusher

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This is an excellent and reliable port of GIMP to OSX. Thank you so much for your efforts in porting this and maintaining it so conscientiously on a continuing basis!
I'm giving your port 5 stars, although GIMP itself would get only 4 stars for "ease of use". My reason for this is that installing your port is extremely easy, so in this context I interpret the "ease" category relating to the port and packaging and not to the application itself.
With regard to the reviews criticizing GIMP for not being easy to use, I think those people are expecting it to work like Photoshop or other applications. GIMP has its own interface paradigm, as do other complex programs like Blender, and you have to learn *GIMP* as it was meant to work. It's not fair to expect one program to work just like another, unless the second program specifically claims to do that. GIMP's developers never claimed it was a drop-in clone of Photoshop or any other commercial application. It's a powerful graphics tool that is available for free on multiple platforms.

Posted 09/14/2014

zcreem

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This is so much nicer now it is in native format and not running under X. Thank you for all your efforts in porting this over.
While the interface is a little unusual if you come from a Photoshop background I think it is well worth learning the shortcuts as this is a very powerful tool. I don't think it is a replacement for Photoshop for me yet though but each release is getting there.